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On Nov. 17 from 6-8 p.m. police of-ficers and cadets will be in front of the main entrance to Roos Field to check the headlights and tire pressures of stu-dents’ vehicles for safety before winter.
The ASEWU Stu-dent Council will meet on Wednesday, Nov. 9 in the PUB student lounge at 3:30 p.m.
Want to learn about how to pre-pare for the CPA exam? Come to the Becker Professional Education presen-tation on Wednes-day, Nov. 16 from 2 to 2:50 p.m. in PUB 261. Business ca-sual dress is required and free pizza will be served. For more information, email [email protected].
EWU’s award-win-ning original stage adaptation of Tim O’Brien’s master-piece, “The Things They Carried,” will be performed on Dec. 1, 2 and 3, at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 4 at 2 p.m. at the EWU University Theatre. Admission is free for students plus one with EagleCard and $10 general admis-sion.
Bina Walker will dis-cuss “Corruption in India and its Impact on Wom-en” on Thursday, Nov. 17 at noon in 207 Monroe Hall as part of EWU Wom-en’s Studies lecture series.
The EWU Associa-tion for Computing Machinery is raf-fling a Kindle Fire on Dec. 5. Email [email protected] to purchase tickets: one for $2 or six for $10.
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Working in a 15-pound suit that’s 20 degrees hotter
than room temperature might be tough. But when that involves teach-ing thousands of screaming EWU football fans how to “Dougie,” it’s worth the effort.
EWU’s mascot, Swoop, has be-come a fixture at Eagle sporting events. Swoop can be seen strut-ting along the sidelines, high-fiving
kids and dancing his tail off, all for the sake of entertainment.
“I love getting fans excited,” Swoop said. “I like making people
laugh. It’s fun to learn a neat trick and then have
people go nuts about it.”
So, who is Swoop? Who is
the man hidden beneath the beak? That is s o m e t h i n g S w o o p takes steps to ensure no one can find out.
“It ru-ins the character,”
Swoop said. “It goes from
Swoop, to be-ing so and so. It’s
no longer the bird, it becomes a person. It’s like
figuring out who Santa Claus is.”The current Swoop is in his
second year of representing Ea-gle athletics. He has had previous
experience as a mascot while attend-ing a junior college. When he con-sidered transferring, he chose EWU because he said it seemed to have the most exciting mascot program.
Considered apart of the EWU cheerleading team, Swoop receives a partial scholarship. With over 70 ap-pearances every year and a full class schedule, it requires a dedicated in-dividual.
Kyle Hoob, director of athletic marketing and sales, was part of the committee last year who interviewed candidates for the open Swoop po-sition. Hoob said this mascot is the best he has ever had while at EWU.
“I hang out with some break dancers on Monday for a few hours,” Swoop said. “It gives me a chance to work on handsprings and stuff. I’ll do some workout stuff with the cheerleaders on Wednesday … and [I am] pretty much going for a run or riding a bike every day of the week.”
Hoob said Swoop’s popular-ity with Eagles fans has dramatically changed in the past year. He has be-come a brand name for the universi-ty, which coincided remarkably well with the installation of the Inferno and the national championship in football.
For Swoop himself, he said the role has become more intense since he first stepped inside the suit.
“There’s expectation now,” Swoop said. “There’s just not, ‘There’s Swoop.’ [Instead, it’s] ‘There’s Swoop, what’s the next cool thing he’s going to do?’ ”
By Kyle Frankostaff writer
Swoopin’ up sports fansFeathered mascot puts in work on and off the field, rallying support for athletics
The Chicano Education Program and the EWU Li-braries celebrated el Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, with two ofrendas, or altars, offered for four influential people in the Chicano/Chicana move-ment.
Day of the Dead is cel-ebrated Nov. 1-2 in con-nection with All Saints Day and All Souls Day. This Mexican holiday is celebrated throughout the world in many cultures.
The ancient celebration allows families to recon-nect with departed ances-tors. It is a time to remem-ber and celebrate the legacy of those who have moved on to the sacred lands of Mictlan, or the realm of the dead.
The presentations were done by students and peers from the Chi-cano Education Program. El Movimiento Estudian-til Chicano/a de Aztlán (M.E.Ch.A), CHST 101: In-troduction to Chicano Cul-ture and CHST 218: Chi-cano History presented the background of the cultural
holiday, what the symbols meant on each ofrenda and told the stories of the four men and women who were honored.
After the presentations, Ms. Eastern Maria Elena Calderon and three danc-ers took center stage to dance in celebration of the holiday.
The ofrendas were spe-cially made by students in the Chicano program. The altars contained the four elements of nature: earth, air, fire, and water. Pictures of the departed ancestors
By Desireé Hoodstaff writer
Library welcomes the dead
In the past two weeks, EWU Campus Police re-ported one confirmed as-sault and another potential stalking case that both oc-curred on the Cheney cam-pus.
On Nov. 2 around 7:50 p.m., a female student was assaulted in the area of the University Recreation Cen-ter (URC) and Louise An-derson (LA) Hall.
As of Oct. 26, Campus Police are looking into a case involving a male stu-dent who reportedly fol-lowed a female student near Kingston and Senior Hall and was also seen loi-tering near the bus stop at the PUB, according to the EWU Police Department Timely Warning.
The Timely Warning, posted on ewu.edu, stated that the suspect involved in last Wednesday’s assault is a black male in his early to mid-20’s, around 6 feet 2 inches tall with a medium build and a goatee.
The man reportedly grabbed the female stu-dent and attempted to take her to a secluded lo-cation.
Deputy Chief of Cam-pus Police Gary Gasseling said that campus police received two or three tips for the assault case so far and, “at this point, we’re working through anyone who could identify the in-dividual.”
When asked if the as-sailant who committed the assault could be a student, Gasseling said, “our suspi-cions are yes, but we have no way to prove that.”
The suspect accused of stalking a female stu-dent two weeks ago is a white male in his mid-20’s, around 5 feet 9 inches, clean shaven with short brown hair, accord-ing to the Timely Warn-ing.
“Right now, we have no case [for the stalker],” Gasseling said. “The per-son hasn’t been identi-fied.”
Stalking cases are not
By Fedor Gaponenko and Dylan Coileasterner staff
EWU campus police search for assailants
Honorary degree policy under revision
EWU’s Honorary De-gree policy 303-04 is un-dergoing revision. The policy was adopted by the Board of Trustees in 2002.
The degree recognizes individuals who have made contributions related to the devotion of education, sci-ence and art to the univer-sity over time.
“This isn’t a new policy. We’ve had this policy for years, but it didn’t have
doctoral degrees, so this is actually a revision of the ex-isting policy. The purpose of this is to add doctoral degrees,” University Policy Administrator Trent Lutey said.
According to the policy draft dated this month,
degrees that earn credit at EWU are not awarded as honorary degrees.
Available degrees in-clude Master of Creative Expression, Master of Hu-man Services, Doctor of Arts, Doctor of Law and Doctor of Science.
Recipients of the award are suggested alumni who have had outstanding per-sonal achievements and
have made contributions to the university in support of higher education.
According to Lutey, peo-ple awarded this degree are not always directly related to the university. EWU has not awarded this degree to anyone in the last ten years.
“I prepare the pro-posed revisions and I’m
By Kristie Hsinsenior reporter
Photo by Casey PichaA speaker celebrating el Dia de los Muertos dedicates an altar to one of the four altar recipients.
Photo by Aaron Malmoe
Outdated policy failed to include doctoral degrees, changes made reflect the need for more variety
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Despite on-going eco-nomic setbacks, alumni con-tinue to support the univer-sity and its students through generous donations.
Much of the donations go toward student expens-es that tuition can’t cover. Other expenses include supporting scholarships, Eastern’s four colleges, the Eastern fund, and aca-demic departments, among many more.
“The type of impact that we’re seeing right now is not so much in participa-tion, which is just slightly lower, but the impact that we’re seeing is in the total dollar amount of dona-tions,” Pat Spanjer, assis-tant director of annual giv-ing, said.
Over the past three fiscal years, Eastern has received approximately $7,830,000 in donations, averaging about $2,610,000 per year.
“We do have loyal do-nors and they continue to give at the level that they’ve given in the past,” said Spanjer. “They give what they can.”
According to Vice President for University Advancement and Foun-dation Executive Director Mike Westfall, results for the fiscal year 2012 look promising and are on track for an outstanding year.
Spanjer said, “With state budget cuts coming in as they are and also cut-ting financial aid for stu-
dents, it’s really imperative that people give more than ever.”
Donations usually come from Eastern friends and alumni. The Alumni House is currently contacting par-ents.
“Right now we’re con-tacting parents because a lot of the other people we’re calling now can’t donate as much because of the whole recession,” said senior Mi-cah Woody, who works in the Alumni House.
In his conversations with possible donors, Woody typically talks
about the current events on campus, the Patterson remodel and about the Na-tional Championship.
“We have so much more school pride and recog-nition since we won the championship. When that kind of a thing happens at a university, it just causes the pride to go up,” said Spanjer. “There are also so many things that hap-pen academically and that build pride and it increases donations.”
Last year, Eastern awarded approximately $2 million in scholarships,
helping more than 1,000 students.
This year’s funds will go towards supporting de-partments like Africana Education, Women’s and Gender Studies, Chicano Studies, the Pride Center and the American Indian Studies program. Funds will also be contributed towards new classroom equipment and EWU’s jazz radio station.
“They affect our stu-dents in so many different ways … and all of these things impact the Eastern experience,” Spanjer said.
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ns Students looking for alternatives to buying high-priced textbooks now have more options for rentals through the EWU bookstore.
The bookstore began renting textbooks last year, but after switching to a different wholesale partner, they are pre-pared to offer students a far greater number of titles.
“Last year, the entire year, we had 104 titles approved, that’s all three quarters. This last quar-ter, we had over 200,” said Jeff Wieck, univer-sity bookstore program coordinator. “Last year, through the whole year, we figured we saved stu-dents $47,000 renting over buying them new.”
According to Wieck, the bookstore’s partner-ship with Missouri Book System last year saved students who rented 50 percent over buying new. Wieck says that their new partner, Bookrenter.com, has the potential to save more money.
“We’ve seen discounts as deep as 80 percent,” Wieck said.
The bookstore rented 1,232 total books for fall quarter, compared to 296 last fall.
“Bookrenter really is the reason. They came in, we provided our en-tire book list, they came
back with like 200 of our titles. 80 percent of our titles were available at some discount,” Wieck said.
“To be honest, buy-ing a used book is still probably the best option for a student. The advan-tage to renting a book is it’s half the money out of pocket initially,” Wieck said. “The rule of thumb is if we’re using it again and buying it back, you’ll get half that new price.”
In many cases, buying online is still a more eco-nomical option, as books can often be purchased far cheaper on Amazon or Half.com and can still be sold back.
Elemental Geosys-tems, a required text for one section of Geology 100, costs $128.85 new at the bookstore, or $96.65 used. A 90 day rental is $51.15. According to the bookstore’s own compar-ison charts, a used copy can be found for $36 on Amazon. A student who needs Fundamentals of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry for Chemistry 161 could save money by renting, as that book is $149.69 on Amazon and costs $71.82 to rent for 90 days. It is nearly $200 new from the bookstore.
“We still strive to get as many used titles as we can. We brought in these rental options as a service to the students to give them more options,” Wieck said.
Textbook rentals make more sense saving dollarsBy Kyle Hardingsenior reporter
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Code Blue Stations, also known as emergen-cy phones, are available around campus to ensure the safety of students and faculty. Campus has thir-teen Code Blue Stations.
“Blue Lights,” another common name for the stations, are strategically located in areas with the most traffic, such as Lot 12, the PHASE, the Visitor Center and near Patterson Hall.
Each station is equipped with a light and number that identifies its location.
Upon pushing the but-ton, the blue light flashes and a signal with a 50-foot radius goes out to campus police.
When activated, the subject is connected with an operator who may ask for additional informa-tion in order to better as-sist the situation.
False activation of a
station could see the per-petrator charged with a misdemeanor.
“When those things are activated, the dis-patcher can hear what’s going on,” said Gasseling. “If they’re hearing noth-ing in the background, it doesn’t mean nothing is going on.”
Junior Melissa McFar-land said, “If you feel un-safe, they’re a good thing to have close by.”
If the campus police only have one officer on call and require assis-tance, the Cheney Police Department is called. However, the Cheney Po-lice Department is not the responding agency for the stations.
“We back them up on a routine basis,” said Cheney Police Depart-ment Commander Rick Campbell.
The phones are checked quarterly by the university’s IT depart-ment, according to Gas-seling.
They check for func-tion by physically press-ing the button to make
sure calls can be received. “My only concern is
how far in between they all are,” senior Henry Mc-Nulty said.
Despite the seldom use of the phones, Gasseling said they’re still essential to campus safety.
“We don’t take the fire alarms out just because we don’t have fires. We have to be prepared for the worst and that’s what the phones are for,” Gas-seling said.
The Code Blue Sta-tions have been in place for more than 15 years, according to Gasseling.
“I think we have to maintain those,” said Gasseling. “We think in today’s society that ev-erybody has a cell phone, but that fact is not true and if some people don’t have a cell phone and they happen to be near one of those things and they un-derstand what they’re for, then we’ve provided them the opportunity to keep themselves safe and for us to respond appropri-ately.”
Code blue stations enhance security, ensure safety around campus
By Kristie Hsinsenior reporter
Blue lights checked frequently by IT department, consequences for improper use include misdemeanor
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Photo Illustration by Evan SykesEmergency phone located in the parking lot behind roos Field is one of thirteen “blue lights.”
The ASEWU has hired Josh Clayton as their new Graduate Affairs Represen-tative. Clayton is a recent recreational management graduate and is hoping that his fresh outlook and pre-vious experience will help lead the ASEWU to a suc-cessful year.
According to the ASEWU President Oscar Ocaña, the process to select a new Graduate Affairs Rep-resentative is outlined in the ASEWU constitution.
The process includes creating a hiring commit-tee, which is responsible for selecting the top candidates for the position. From there, the ASEWU appoints who they believe to be the top candidate.
Clayton decided late that he was going to return to graduate school for sports and recreation manage-ment. Once deciding to re-turn, he jumped on the op-portunity to fill the post.
“I knew that since I was going to be going back and going to graduate school that I really enjoyed work-ing with ASEWU last year, and I wanted to continue to work with them in some sort of capacity,” Clayton said.
Clayton is excited for this year and is eager to imple-ment many of his own goals as well as to aid the ASEWU in obtaining their goals.
“My main goal is to kind of establish the old gradu-ate senate student struc-ture, re-evaluate that and see if there is a way we can make it better for the grad-uate students so they get equal representation from Cheney, Riverpoint and from each department,” Clayton said.
The graduate program at EWU is home to over 1,300 graduate students, all of which is represented by Joshua Clayton.
ASEWU recently laid out their six goals for the year. Clayton believes that his own personal goals are intertwined with the goals of the ASEWU.
“As a whole, some of the goals that I share with the ASEWU is the child care facility, fitness center collaboration and trans-portation for the summer quarter for the graduate students, as well as the undergraduates,” Clayton said.
When being hired for this position, Clayton thought that he would be able to immediately fulfill the goals that the ASEWU had.
“The services that they were trying to implement last year, I felt like I’d be able to step into the posi-tion and get these things going off the ground,” Clayton said.
Clayton hopes to be able to identify the stu-dents’ needs. Specifically,
he is providing a survey to the students that would identify the problems that students want to address.
Clayton is hoping to create a survey that can identify what graduate students are looking for from the ASEWU.
“It’s not going to be ex-cruciating long. It’s defi-nitely worth their while because it’s their response that tells us what their needs are. Otherwise we’re just putting money into a program that may not be getting used,” Clayton said.
Clayton is planning to bring direction to ASEWU this year. He knows that there are needs that haven’t been met and he plans to address many of those needs this year.
“There are a lot of pro-grams and services that are already in place right now, but there are more needs right now then the services that are out there,” Clayton said.
Clayton knows that he works for the students and says that more student in-put is needed.
“I want to make sure that all the students are represented correctly be-cause we are paid by the students,” Clayton said.
Karl Almgren, a gradu-ate student studying ur-ban and regional plan-ning, said there needs to be better communication between the students and ASEWU.
“You can never have enough input from the students. We’re really reaching out to the stu-dents as much as possible and trying to assess what they want, how things are going, do they really even like what were doing, just make sure they’re getting a good value,” Clayton said.
New graduate affairs representative brings
By Trevor Parusstaff writer
Photo by Evan SykesJosh Clayton is the new AsEWU graduate Affairs representative.
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Along with current sus-tainable programs at East-ern, Dining Services is in-terested in a program that would have “students feed students.”
Dining Services is im-mersed in a wide variety of projects to help students at Eastern. Dining Services is open to ideas that involve sustainability, donating excess food and helping to feed less fortunate students on campus, according to David McKay, director of Dining Services.
According to McKay, an idea that’s floating around amongst other schools is “students feeding stu-dents.”
“If you got a meal plan and you feel like you’ll have five extra meal points, you can donate those into a slush fund. … If you’re hav-ing a down-and-out time, you can come and get a meal card that might have five meals on it,” McKay said.
Fila said this program is a great idea and that this could be beneficial for fu-ture students.
“When I lived in the dorms my freshman year and had a meal plan, I know many people who probably would have used a program like this,” Fila said.
“I think it’s tough right now,” McKay said. “Keep-
ing the leftover meal points available to students might be a great way for us to try to start on the meal waste. I think it would also pay some dividend to the stu-dents here on campus.”
Sylas Rohner, a visual communication design ma-jor, thinks that students feeding students would be a good idea.
“I think that is a very good opportunity for stu-dents to give back to the community. It seems easier for students to donate meal counts to help out students than to physically donate food,” Rohner said.
As of last spring, Din-ing Services has instituted a plan to compost its inedible food. McKay is hoping that composting will eventu-ally come to the dining area rather than just being in the kitchen.
While Dining Services has implemented this plan, it still has no solution for the excess food that the program does not use. McKay said that Dining Services tries to not waste any of its food, but there is always some left over.
McKay said that in the past, they have donated excess food to local food banks but Dining Services does not set up the dona-tions. Organizations other than Dining Services have donated food, just as stu-dent clubs have.
McKay said that Dining Services is not opposed to
donating residual food but he thinks organizing dona-tions is best left to groups other than Dining Services.
“Since we don’t want to use a lot of state resources, we’re looking for that stu-dent group to embrace this. … I think this a great place for a student organization or club to jump in,” McKay said.
Justin Fila, ASEWU stu-dent service representative, who is also the chair of the food service committee, thinks donating excess food would be a challenge.
“I, personally, think that it is a great idea, but I am not sure how feasible it would be for health rea-sons. If this is something that can be done, though, I would like to try to get it go-ing and get other groups on campus involved with it,” Fila said.
Dining Services has pro-grams such as the 20/20 project, which aims for din-ing services to be 20 per-cent sustainable by the year 2020. Sustainable means that the school produces its own food via community gardens or co-ops.
McKay said that all of dining services’ disposable silverware and plates are made from plant oils that are able to be composted. The goal is to be green and to be sustainable.
In addition, all of the fryer oil is recycled at local bio-diesel plants and even-tually used as bio-fuel.
Dining Services seeks sustainabilityBy Trevor Parusstaff writer
Photo by Mikayla Napier
Three strikes and it’s expulsion from Eastern.
The university’s aca-demic integrity policy underlines that cheating is prohibited. Violations are reviewed in order to determine proper punish-ment.
“Academic Integrity—the policy has been in place for about 10 years and it really came in place to give the students an avenue to have their con-cerns heard by an inde-pendent and non-biased perspective,” Associate Vice Provost for Under-graduate Studies Mark Baldwin said.
The policy ensures that students are heard and given a fair chance to tell their side of the story. The policy was put in place for situations when a student and faculty member can-not agree on what hap-pened in class.
Students can go to another faculty member who has been trained as an arbiter to hear both sides and then make a judgment about what they think most likely hap-pened.
According to Baldwin, if there were no academic integrity policy in place and a student was accused of plagiarizing or cheating, there would be little a stu-dent could do.
Without a policy, stu-dents would have to go back to the teacher who accused them and try to convince them that what they think or saw was not what actually happened.
“Our faculties are very supportive and they lis-ten, but I think once a fac-ulty member has identi-fied something they think is misconduct, it would be hard to convince them,” Baldwin said.
The first time a stu-dent is caught cheating, the faculty member deter-mines what the response is. The end result could be a warning, redoing the as-signment or getting a zero for the assignment.
If it happens a second time, the student will fail the course no matter what the faculty member says in the student’s defense. For students who violate the policy a third time, the president will be notified and will determine wheth-er to expel the student or not.
The first appeal con-sists of meeting with arbi-ters, who are usually fac-ulty members.
The faculty member is never someone associated within the same depart-ment.
If a student fails a course because they vio-lated the policy, they get an XF grade on their tran-script. If a student was to go to the Student’s Rights and Responsibilities Office,do a tutorial and then that XF grade gets turned into a 0.0. Stu-dents can take that course as a repeat and replace the zero.
“There [are] resources we can plug them into. We can have conversa-tions about what’s hap-pening,” Rockwell said. “Sometimes students are just kind of out there suf-fering through things on their own and they won’t know [where] to go or who to see.”
The average number of violations turned in throughout each year is roughly 100. The univer-sity has never had to expel a student for cheating.
“Here’s the thing about academic integrity that I don’t think people equate: … What we’re really try-ing to do is maintain fair-ness,” said Baldwin. “It’s not really to catch people
and punish them as it is to give everyone a fair evalu-ation.”
Assistant Director of General Undergraduate Academic Advising Patty Rockwell, said, “We try to tell our students [that] if they have any questions to come to us and ask. … They don’t always know to seek help.”
According to Rockwell, an average of four to five percent of students end up on academic probation.
“There’s some that did well in high school and they get to college and find out the pace is different,” Rockwell said.
The pressure to stay off academic probation or get off probation could some-times lead to cheating.
“There’s a lot of aca-demic pressure — a lot of scholarships and finan-cial aid depend on a good GPA,” said senior Melissa Patera. “I think sometimes there are other outside is-sues, like stress or family issues.”
Some popular forms of cheating include putting information in a graph-ing calculator, using cell phones and writing notes on the inside labels of wa-ter bottles.
“They’re good people, good students who get caught in bad circum-stances ... and we forget that sometimes,” Baldwin said.
“It usually happens when students fall into a real desperate situation. They’ve not kept up in class, they have a paper that’s due, their grades are starting to suffer and instead of maybe being positive and constructive about it, they think, ‘if I can just cheat this one time.’ … They’re not bad people,” Baldwin said.
Eastern’s academic integrity and academic probation policies can be found online.
Students judged fairly with arbiterPlagiarism punished with failing grades and expulsionBy Kristie Hsinsenior reporter
An example of excess food Dining services has at the end of an average day.
As the national unem-ployment rate hovers over nine percent, college stu-dents who have borrowed money to pay for their education are faced with the prospect that they may not be able to pay back the money as easily as they once thought.
The number of stu-dents at EWU taking out student loans has steadily increased in recent years. For the 2010-2011 school year, 7,545 students bor-rowed money. That is 56.5 percent of the stu-dent body. This is up from 6,854 in 2009-2010, 6,435 in 2008-2009, and 6,122 in 2007-2008.
“There are two factors there,” said Bruce De-Frates, director of financial aid and scholarships. “One is the increase in tuition
and cost. The other is that as other aid stays flat, stu-dents have to either work or borrow money. The Pell grants and state need grants have gone up, but not as fast as tuition,” De-Frates said.
Eastern’s full-time resi-dent undergraduate tuition rate was $1,495 per quar-ter for 2007-2008. It has rose over 49 percent to $2,229.67 for 2011-2012.
For 2010-2011, the stu-dents who borrowed were an average of $20,888 in debt. According to De-Frates, most of the loans are federally backed, al-though some students have private education loans.
Students at Eastern borrow more than those at Washington State Uni-versity and University of Washington, but less than the students at Central Washington University and Western Washington University.
The socioeconomic sta-tus of Eastern’s students may lead to increased bor-rowing.
“Half of our population are independent students, and they may not have the family resources to draw on,” DeFrates said.
Brianna Randall and her husband Matt, both juniors, have a combined $35,000 in student loan debt. Even though they both have jobs, they do not earn enough to pay tuition, fees, and living expenses.
“We’re very concerned about it, especially with the economy the way it is,” Randall said.
Eastern’s rate of bor-rowing and the average amount of money bor-rowed is lower than the na-tional average. According to projectonstudentdebt.org, two-thirds of graduat-ing seniors in 2010 had an average of $25,250 in stu-dent loan debt.
By Kyle Hardingsenior reporter
Larger loans create fear of impossible repaymentMore than half of EWU students in debt from loans
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november 9, 2011 • opinion
Not a day passes that we don’t hear about stu-dents getting wasted. Sure it’s fun, but one of the greatest lessons to be learned here is mod-eration; something not many students seem to have.
Every day we overhear students in various ma-jors talking about their wild nights partying.
There is absolute-ly nothing wrong with choosing to drink, have fun, let loose or even ex-periment. The unfortu-nate thing about taking it too far is that we tend to condition ourselves into these lifestyles, and for-get our limits.
Not a month goes by that we too don’t see another college student who tragically died in a night of binge drinking.
In mid-October of this year, Lydia Gale Clark, a Drake University student, died on her 21st birthday after taking 16 shots.
What a tragic waste of youth.
One of the most beau-tiful traits anyone can have is the ability for self control, to monitor and moderate ourselves. This includes those who would provoke a small, 21-year-old young woman to take
16 shots of hard alco-hol. Perhaps those are the people who need the most self-discipline, to know when they should not instigate a potential-ly deadly outcome.
Sadly, college drink-ing has been on the rise for years, and with it, DUIs, alcohol poison-ings, and assaults. And in this technologically advanced age, when we can send our photo to
China with $20 and in a couple weeks receive a fake I.D. that can fool any cashier, it’s no won-der why.
There’s probably more of a cultural rea-son for this rise, howev-er. It would take a book to understand it.
Suffice to say, the images we see in soci-ety tend to point to the same idea: that it’s cool, it’ll get you sex, and ev-
eryone does it. Wrong. Not everyone does it.
People will be people. We’ll drink, we’ll party, and we’ll probably get into trouble.
This is the method from which we learn.
But the most impor-tant lesson we need to learn is the one of self-discipline. Without it, there is no limit, liter-ally, to how stupid we can get.
Students tend to indulge more than they moderate
“What do you do for fun on the weekends?”Through the Eagle’s Eye
“I go to Spokane
and go shopping, or
find stuff to do on
campus.”
Sydnee Chapell
“I have a roleplaying
game on the sixth
floor of Morrison.”
Robert Sevin
“I like to hang out
with the guys and eat
Arabic food.”
Mubarak Al-Dossary
“I’m on the hockey
team, and always
have a game on the
weekend.”
Courtney Herom-Cobb
“I hang out with
friends, and
sometimes I
drink.”
Anna Maryott
Photos by Desireé Hood
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Dr. Conrad Murray was found guilty Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2011, for involun-tary manslaughter after he helped his friend and only patient Michael Jack-son overdose on Propofol.
The trial began Sept. 27, 2011, and just over a month later the verdict was in. Jackson died June 25, 2009, and Murray pleaded not guilty to in-voluntary manslaughter charges on Feb. 8, 2010.
Murray’s sentencing is set for Nov. 29, 2011. Until then, he is being held without bail since the courts find him a threat to society. He’s also been stripped of his medical li-cense. He could receive up to four years.
Murray’s defense was clear: Jackson was a dirty drug addict who admin-istered the drugs himself. Murray claimed that Jack-son only wanted to sleep. So Murray raised Jack-son’s medicine to Propo-fol, a strong hypnotic used in general anesthesia.
The Easterner office was full of varying opin-ions of Murray’s guilt. Should Murray get sen-tenced for four years? Or should Murray get off the hook because Jackson was a drug addict who was administering the drug himself?
“For supplying a drug addict with his drugs, it’s just wrong for him to get four years,” Staff Writer Desireé Hood said. “It’s Michael Jackson’s own fault for overdosing.”
Hood doesn’t believe Murray should get off the hook completely, but doesn’t think he should also be getting a lengthy prison term either.
“Michael Jackson was
a drug addict,” Hood said. “And if you’re go-ing to overdose on drugs, regardless if he bought them from this doctor or if he bought them from some guy on the street, he was going to do them and was going to over-dose at some point in his life.”
Hood conceded that Murray was guilty only of cleaning up the crime scene from police but didn’t think that that makes him guilty of man-slaughter.
“Of course he covered it up on purpose, he is Michael Jackson,” Hood said. “It doesn’t matter who the celebrity was, they would always try to cover up a drug overdose like that. This isn’t the first one.”
Hood brought up ce-lebrities like Heath Led-ger, Brittany Murphy and Amy Winehouse. No one went to jail over those. And all of them over-dosed on something.
“If you’re going to do the drugs,” Hood said, “then you’re going to risk overdosing.”
But others in the office didn’t feel the same way.
“I think he should get four years,” Derek Brown, Opinion Editor, said. “Why not? I mean, he’s not going to get the full sentencing anyway.”
For Brown, Murray covered it up, and this shows a sense of wrong-doing, a sense of guilt. It is that act alone that shows that Murray is in the wrong when it comes to Jackson’s death.
“And Murray knew that Jackson was using Propofol as a sedative, that’s negligence on Mur-ray’s behalf,” Brown said. “If I knew you were going to shoot-up the Drano I just bought you and didn’t do anything about it when I knew it would kill you, then covered it up once you were dead, I would have been part of the problem. Hence my guilt. Just like Murray: he straight contributed to Jackson’s death. There-fore, he’s guilty. Lock him up.”
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Jackson’s doctor found guilty divides Easterner employeesBy Derek Brownopinion editor
By Desireé Hoodstaff writer
EAGLE LIFEeagle life • november 9, 2011
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Bill Watrous came to Eastern to teach his jazz methods to mu-sic students and did a trombone performance in Spokane at the Ichiban Sushi Lounge on Nov. 3.
Watrous’s class involved him teaching and telling stories, in-cluding a story about drummer Buddy Rich getting insulted by comedian Don Rickles.
Watrous has had a long career in music performance. Trombone players at Eastern were well aware of his music and work long before Watrous came to EWU.
Junior Nathan Westlund plays the trombone and said how important it was for him to go to Watrous’s clinics and con-cert.
“I’ve been listening to Wa-trous’s music for 15 years,” Westlund said. “I didn’t want to miss seeing Watrous teach and perform because he is an icon in the trombone world.”
Watrous inspires musicians who play instruments other than the trombone.
Students who have not heard of Watrous before his clinic now have new ideas and methods to try out when practicing and performing to make them better musicians.
Sophomore Zach Hillebrant said how Watrous gave him new ideas on how to practice and in-terpret jazz.
“For playing jazz [improvi-sation], Watrous doesn’t pay as much attention to the note changes as much as he feels the music,” Hillebrant said. “Feel-ing the music more would help me look at sheet music less and help me come up with jazz licks off the top of my head.”
Watrous’s jazz clinic had student musicians playing in a small group setting with Wa-trous.
He would give his feedback after each group played a chosen jazz tune.
Freshman Lauren McKinley plays percussion and piano. She got to play piano during the jazz clinic.
“Watrous played with a lot of style when he played. After seeing him use so much style, I want to start using more style with my jazz [improvisation],” McKinley said.
Seeing a professional musi-cian’s clinics and concert may be important because learning how professionals think and perform can open up more creativity in practicing and performing.
Sophomore Jacob Lorber plays the saxophone and said that he finds musical inspiration from artists other than saxo-
phonists.“Seeing artists in person
and learning their methods are what inspires me in music,” said Lorber. “That’s why I wanted to go to Watrous’s clinics and con-cert. I went to see Arturo Sando-val give a clinic and I learned a lot, even though he plays a dif-ferent instrument.”
Watrous ended the day of jazz with his performance at the Ichiban Sushi Lounge in Spo-kane.
Some people had to stand during Watrous’s performance because every chair was taken. Watrous also sang “My Funny Valentine,” treating the audi-ence to his vocal talents.
Frank McNeillycontributing writer
Trombonist infuses lesson with style
English professor Hen-ry-York Steiner, Ph.D., has been teaching at East-ern since 1968. His expe-rience as an undergradu-ate student at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa may differ from a typical present day college stu-dent.
Steiner painted the picture of a small, tightly knit campus community
that valued participation and a balanced lifestyle.
“It was a very collegiate atmosphere. ... Every-one dressed up,” he said. “Sweaters, slacks, skirts, … no jeans. Men wore ties and sport coats to dinner.”
Many of the core re-quirements were different, Steiner explained.
Every student was re-quired to take a freshmen “Great Ideas” sequence that covered the history of West-ern thought.
“There was no math re-
quirement, which was good because I did not do well in algebra and mathematics in high school,” Steiner said. “I was able to take lots and lots of courses in my [Eng-lish] major.”
Like many students to-day, Steiner said that high school did not necessarily leave him prepared for col-lege. “I basically coasted through high school,” said Steiner. “I was not working up to my potential. I was not really very happy.”
In the early 1950s when
Steiner attended Grinnell College, the United States was waging war in another country, just like today.
After his first year, Steiner was drafted into the Korean War.
“There was no defer-ment of any kind in those days,” said Steiner. “I did very well when I got back. I had grown up a lot. I had experienced something that none of my contemporaries had.”
Today, collegiate sports teams require a large time
commitment and can in-volve scholarships and awards. At Grinnell College, Steiner said, “No one had any idea that there was any reason [to play] other than just having fun. … [It was] more like intramurals.”
Steiner explained that students at Grinnell Col-lege had access to a healthy roster of arts and enter-tainment events similar to those provided by Eagle Entertainment and the Eastern Arts Complex.
“We had a first-rate
concert series,” Steiner said. “String quartets, jazz bands, pop music ... plays, operas, movies. Everything was free.”
Social activities at Grinnell were also much more restrict-ed than at Eastern, according to Steiner. For example, only seniors were allowed to have cars. “I had a car [as a sopho-more]. It was sort of a secret,” he said, chuckling. “I paid a local resident … to store it in their garage.”
Maybe times haven’t changed so much after all.
College then and now: The journey from student to professorBy Davis Hillstaff writer
This past summer, stu-dents sought and seized paid internships to explore their career options.
Romeal Watson, Career
Services internship coordi-nator, said, “An internship helps students calibrate the reality of what’s going on in the industry they’re going into.”
Direct contact with pro-fessionals is important to learn what an industry is
like and how to get ahead. This helps build your arse-nal and intellectual armor, according to Watson.
“You have to understand that the internship opportu-nities aren’t going to fall on your lap,” said senior Erica Brindza, finance major.
Brindza interned at the consulting firm Seattle Mercer Human Resources, a position which she ob-tained through INROADS, the nation’s largest non-profit source of paid intern-ships. From this internship, she received a job offer as a health and benefits consul-tant with the company.
“I knew I couldn’t just go to school and get good grades to find a job after col-
lege. I needed experience. A degree shows that you have the capacity to learn and an internship shows that you took what you’ve learned and applied it to the real world,” Brindza said.
Participating students are mentored by INROADS and placed into companies relating to their majors. Ac-cording to INROADS, 92 percent of the interns in the past two years accepted
offers for full-time employ-ment from their sponsoring companies.
“INROADS is funded by Fortune 500 companies seeking to diversify staff and bring minorities into the corporate market.
The summer internships offered are paid and range from $6,000 to $10,000 a summer,” said Watson.
By Kelly Manalocontributing writer
Students share internship experiences, secrets for success
Photo by Frank McNeillyBill Watrous, left, and students perform during one of his two clinics. Watrous has had a long career as a jazz trombonist, playing the trombone for most of his life.
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“The number one thing students should do is find professionals in their ca-reer paths, whether in their local communities or an-other part of the country. Network with local profes-sionals, local advisers and attend career conferences,” said Watson.
Students need to be pre-pared to bring in new per-spectives and be able to an-swer tough questions.
“Employers will ask why you want to do what you’re doing. You must be able to say what you’re pas-sionate about it,” Watson said. “They’ll also ask you about your personal take on where the industry should go or on developing their products. Students who can answer these questions are the ideal students they want, someone who can bring in ideas.”
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EAGLE LIFE page 7november 9, 2011 • eagle life
running for charity — with bells on
Nov. 19, A l p h a
O m i c r o n Pi women’s
fraternity will be at Riv-erfront Park volunteer-ing for the Jingle Bell Run/Walk to support the Arthritis Foundation.
The Alpha Omicron Pi women’s fraternity has 77 members and they will all be volunteering in some way.
The sisters will be course marshals, work-ing the elf village child-care, and running or walking the event.
The Arthritis Foun-dation is the fraternity’s national philanthropy, or community service proj-ect.
The sisters are excited to participate in any way they can.
Alpha Omicron Pi has been involved with the Arthritis Foundation since 2006, assisting with both the Jingle Bell Run/Walk and Blooms-day in the spring.
“Several of our sis-ters and active members
have arthritis. I had no idea how many people it affected close to me,” El-len Stuart, philanthropy chair for the fraternity, said.
The Arthritis Founda-tion was founded in 1948 and offers services for the more than 100 types of arthritis and similar conditions.
The foundation tries to help people control arthritis by providing health education, pursu-ing legislative and policy changes, and offering programs to improve the quality of life for people living with arthritis.
According to the foundation, arthritis af-fects one in five adults and over 300,000 chil-dren, making arthritis the leading cause of dis-ability in the U.S.
“Personally, for me, I could assume at some point in time, I’m prob-ably going to have arthri-tis,” Stuart said.
The Jingle Bell Run/Walk is a 5K course start-ing in downtown Spo-kane at Riverfront Park. The course for children is a 1K and they are run-ning alongside elves.
In addition to running or walking the course, there will be costume con-tests, team challenges, and many other events.
The event costs $25 and $30 if particpants want a running chip to qualify for a spot in Bloomsday. Children un-der eight years old are $10 with a shirt and free without a shirt. The price will increase by $5 on Nov. 18 for adults.
There are prizes given for raising money as well. For every $100 raised, participants get a pair of crew socks with the Jin-gle Bell Walk/Run logo.
If participants get a team of five members together, they get a crew neck long-sleeve shirt with the same logo.
Alpha Omicron Pi has a team already listed on www.SpokaneJingleBell-Run.org under the name AOIIEWU. They wel-come any students who want to join their team.
“Knowing that you are helping people by actu-ally having fun and doing this walk is something cool,” Chelsea May, pan-hellenic delegate for the fraternity, said.
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A screening of Invisible Children’s documentary, “Tony: Lose All. Gain Ev-erything,” will be shown at EWU on Wed. Nov 16 at 7 p.m. in Showalter 109.
This will be the third screening of the film at EWU.
Invisible Children is a non-profit organiza-tion dedicated to ending a 25-year-long conflict in Central Africa.
“This film follows the story of a boy named Tony who has grown up in the midst of this conflict,” Ste-sha Durante, an unpaid in-tern for Invisible Children, said in an e-mail interview.
“He has been affected by the LRA first hand and he was one of the first boys that the founders of Invis-ible Children met on their first trip to Uganda.”
Circle K will be spon-soring the event.
“Circle K is the colle-giate-level of an organiza-tion called Kiwanis Inter-national, which works to serve children around the
world by completing ser-vice projects to better their communities,” Ashley Pod-plesky said.
Podplesky, president of Circle K at EWU, has or-ganized the two previous screenings of the film on campus.
“I booked a screening for the fall 2010 tour,” Pod-plesky said in an e-mail in-terview.
“We had such a great turnout that Invisible Chil-dren booked a screening with us for the spring 2011 tour the next day. ... It only made sense to have them back for a third time.”
The film attempts to embody the affects and struggles of warfare being waged by the Lord’s Resis-tance Army (LRA), led by Joseph Kony.
“The Protection Plan is working to build AM and FM radio towers in the ru-ral areas of Central Africa that are currently being affected by the LRA,” Du-rante said.
“These radio towers will broadcast messages to members of the LRA urg-ing them to defect and we are already seeing huge success in this. The towers
also provide the most vul-nerable communities with much needed communi-cation as well as an Early Warning Radio Network that can warn the villages of current LRA attacks.”
The LRA works around the borders of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and Sudan.
They have been known to use the borders of these countries to keep them-selves safe from Ugandan troops. The U.S. Military attempted to stop the LRA in 2008, but was unsuc-cessful.
The LRA has been ac-cused of attacking villages, killing civilians and ab-ducting people to bolster troop numbers. Many of the LRA’s soldiers are chil-dren who have been cap-tured in the attacks.
The LRA is fighting to re-establish the traditions of the people of Northern Uganda, or Acholi, that they believe have been suppressed since the Brit-ish colonization of Uganda during the 19th century.
Their original goal was to overthrow the Ugandan government.
By Matt Wardcontributing writer
Invisible Children documentary
exposes Central African conflict
The history depart-ment will have a new claim to fame on Nov. 28 when graduate student Clayton Hanson com-petes on JEOPARDY!
Hanson, who is work-ing for his master’s in public history, will be fea-tured on the NBC show at 7 p.m. the Monday after Thanksgiving.
Hanson started his quizzing career in pubs. He and roommate Eric Peters competed against a table of five Gonzaga pro-fessors at the South Hill
Applebee’s during their Thursday trivia nights. One evening, they lost by one point, only to return another time and beat the Zags.
Hanson tried out for JEOPARDY! online. He tested well and was in-vited for an interview in Seattle, where the show tested him again and gave him a personality inter-view. He competed there with other applicants in a JEOPARDY! simulation.
They accepted his ap-plication and in early Oc-
tober he flew to Los An-geles, where the Nov. 28 showing was taped.
Hanson works for the history department as a graduate student as-sistant, as well as main-taining a website, a Face-book page, and writing programs for visitors as needed at the Lake Roos-evelt National Recreation Center.
While watching the show, tweet questions for our follow-up Q&A with Hanson. Tweet to us at @EasternerOnline.
Abrar Al Maghribi left Iraq as a young child, lived in Jordan as a ref-ugee and came to the U.S. as a teen. She will discuss Islamic women’s strengths across generations, their physical limitations, empowerment,
adaptation, and cultural mores. She will personalize current concepts of the wearing of the scarf in the U.S., showing how she retained some tra-ditions and let others go in order to fit in on campus and in the U.S.
Upcoming EventThe Hijab in American Life
Nov. 15, noon-12:50 p.m. 207 Monroe Hall
On Wednesday, Nov. 2, Kathleen Huttenmaier, se-nior associate of the women’s and gender studies depart-ment at Eastern, discussed five women who made a siz-able impact on the develop-
ment of the atomic bomb, particularly in the 1940s.
The women that Hutten-maier lectured about were Lise Meitner, Leona Woods, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Nat-alie Michelle Govenski and Elizabeth Riddle Graves.
Meitner influence Otto Hahn and helped to confirm his work with nuclear fission,
work for which he would lat-er win a Nobel Prize.
Huttenmaier empha-sized that though women were contributors to early nuclear development, men controlled the industry and were quick to criticize wom-en and that many contribu-tions from women are still overlooked.
On
Photo courtesy of JEOPARDY! graduate student Clayton hanson (right) poses with JEOpArDY! host Alex Trebek (left). Nuclear women ignored by history,
celebrated by lecturer Huttenmaier Who is a trivia-savvy graduate student?
History buff makes the jump from pub competition to primetime, competes for top honors on JEOPARDY!
By Abby Grytdalcontributing writer
november 9, 2011
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very common occurrences in Cheney, according to Cheney Police Depart-ment Commander Rick Campbell. “It’s been sev-eral months, maybe a year or so since the last stalker case was reported, as I re-call,” Campbell said.
According to Gassel-
ing, the Timely Warnings posted to Eastern’s web-site are mandatory police reports in compliance with the Clery Act.
According to securi-tyoncampus.org, Jeanne Clery was a 19-year-old Lehigh University fresh-man who was raped and murdered while asleep in her residence hall room on April 5, 1986.
Jeanne’s parents, Con-
nie and Howard Clery, discovered that students hadn’t been told about 38 violent crimes on their daughter’s campus in the three years before her murder.
They joined with oth-er campus crime victims and persuaded Congress to enact a law so that stu-dents could be informed.
Originally known as the Campus Security Act,
the Clery Act requires colleges and universities across the U.S. to disclose information about crime on and around their cam-puses.
Gasseling said that, statistically, the campus police do not get many reports of assaults and other similar cases, such as stalking.
Based on the number of reports that are filed,
these may not be common occurrences.
However, there is al-ways the possibility that cases like these happen and students don’t report them to campus police.
“If these things do hap-pen, they need to be report-ed,” said Gasseling. “Stu-dents don’t know if this is the second, third, or even fourth time this crime has been committed or where
it could be leading to.” If anyone has informa-
tion related to either of these cases, or any other crime that may have been committed on campus or in Cheney, call EWU Police directly at 509-359-6310 during normal business hours, Police Dispatch at 509-535-9233 after hours or EWU Po-lice Tip Line at 509-359-4286.
Last summer, a woman I grew up with went missing. She texted a friend and said something like, “I am going to see my ex, at this loca-tion.” When she was late for a party, the friend went looking. It was four days until her body was found. And while it is up to a jury to decide guilt or inno-cence, it would appear that she died at the hands of her ex. She was 47-years-old.
Her death reminds me of how important this work of trying to end violence is. Her death motivates me. Too often, individuals come
to see me after their break up. Usually by the time they come to me, they have put up for months with in-trusions and actions that amount to stalking.
In my work, I try to help the person get out of the situation safely. But what I would really like to see is that person’s friends take action much earlier. I’d like them to speak up when they first notice the extra jealousy, or behavior that is controlling. I’d like them to check in with their friend, “Are you okay? You shouldn’t be treated like that. I know someone who can help.” I’d also like to see the friends of the per-son who won’t let go say, “It’s not right to treat her or
him that way.” If we stand together and speak up, we can work to end family vio-lence. If we get educated on the issues ,we can speak intelligently and promote healthy, equal relation-ships. By doing proactive and reactive green dots, we can change the culture.
It starts with individuals making commitments like these: Next time, I am go-ing to stop and ask, ‘Do you need help?’ I am going to do a paper and learn what contributes to power-based personal violence. I am go-ing to attend the green dot 6-hour bystanders’ train-ing. So if you’re interested in changing the culture, my first question for you is: What’s your green dot? My second one is: How many green dots are you going to contribute?
By Karen Wanjico
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were present on the al-tars, as well as candles to help light the way back. Incense is traditionally burned on the altars to cleanse the area of nega-tive energy.
The four influential people were chosen be-cause of the impact they had on the Chicano/Chi-cana movement.
Josefina Fierro de Bright fought against racial discrimination and better pay for migrant workers
during the Great Depres-sion.
Dona Marina Malintzin Malinalli served as a trans-lator, negotiator and cul-tural mediator during the 16th century.
Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa was a leading scholar of Chicana/Chica-no culture and contributor to feminism.
Cesar Chavez founded the National Farm Work-ers Association.
These four men and women shared the honor this year.
Russ Posten, a senior, read for the event and was
glad to do it. “We were look-ing for Chicanas that were really diverse and had a re-ally big impact,” he said. “I think Gloria and Josefina were good choices.”
Jerry Garcia, director of Chicano studies, wanted to teach history and culture with this event. “We heard two people walk by the altar today and say, ‘Aah, today must be Cinco de Mayo.’ ” said Garcia. “That’s why we have to teach people the his-tory.”
The library entryway was filled with students who came to the presentations for various reasons. “It was
part of my class grade for Chicano studies,” Montse Franco, a student, said.
“I have taken four years of Spanish and I love el Dia de los Muertos,” Em-ily Bond, another student, said.
Regardless of the rea-son, the various students and faculty that attended the event left with knowl-edge of the cultural holiday.
“A lot of people came to learn about a culture that maybe they are totally un-familiar with and people walked away with a greater awareness of the culture,” Garcia said.
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responsible for putting them out on the website for people to discuss them, make suggestions and ideas,” Lutey said.
Decisions of the policy and its revisions are deter-mined by the Graduate Af-fairs Council. The council also reviews candidates for the award by recommen-dations of the University Medals and Awards Com-mittee.
“Many universities award honorary degrees to important people. … That’s not academic medal,” said Lutey. “It’s just a way of recognizing someone who’s not affiliated with the uni-versity.”
The policy is scheduled to be finalized by Jan. 27 at the Board of Trustees meeting, according to Lu-tey.
The Honorary Degree policy can be found on EWU’s webpage. Policy re-visions are posted on East-ern 24/7.
“The number one thing students should do is find professionals in their ca-reer paths, whether in their local communities or an-other part of the country. Network with local profes-sionals, local advisers and attend career conferences,” said Watson.
Students need to be pre-pared to bring in new per-spectives and be able to an-swer tough questions.
“Employers will ask why you want to do what you’re doing. You must be able to say what you’re passion-ate about it,” Watson said. “They’ll also ask you about your personal take on where the industry should go or on developing their products. Students who can answer these questions are the ideal students they want.”
Students are encour-aged to talk to their major advisers and set an ap-pointment at Career Ser-vices to learn more about internship opportunities. Career Services offers mock interviews, person-ality tests, and advice on professional development, résumés and cover letters.
“The Career Services of-fice’s and staff member’s job is to help navigate student’s career paths,” said Watson.
Career Services encour-ages students to use their tuition to the fullest.
“What students don’t re-alize is that they could get a lot more out of their tuition money if they really used all the universities resources. You’re getting a great value
here at Eastern, given all the resources available,” said Brindza.
Brindza encourages stu-dents to look for clubs and organizations on campus that relate to their major. “Don’t just go to school, get involved. Use the resources on campus. That’s how you get opportunities.”
Brindza said, “It’s not just one thing that helped me get ahead. Maintaining involvement [on campus] played together to get me where I wanted to go.”
“When students become juniors or seniors, they start to think, ‘Oh, what’s going to happen next?’ You really need to think about that so much sooner. Freshmen need to think about intern-ships now to try out their majors,” said Brindza.
“You can’t rely solely on academic knowledge. Take academic experience as an element of your profession-al career. Experience your field hands-on,” Watson said.
Junior Quinita Whit-field, a health services administration major, in-terned at Kaiser Permanete as a pharmacy administra-tion intern in Portland, Ore. She found this as an oppor-tunity to figure out what she wanted to do and gain an-other perspective on what health care is about.
INROADS also helped Whitfield prepare for her internship placement by giving her three mock inter-views and advice.
“If you want to apply [for an INROADS internship], apply now to be among the first to apply. Start earlier for more opportunities,” Whitfield said.
Hoob said he and Swoop have been working together to create video skits for halftime during the upcoming basketball season. Swoop will swing into residence hall rooms before games to encourage everyone to head over to Reese Court.
To be a mascot, it takes more than just enthusiasm to get fans involved.
“[It’s] more than dancing. It’s the ability to physically express an idea,” said Swoop. “You can be a great dancer, but can’t communicate. That just makes you a cheer-leader.”
With two years of mas-cot experience before ar-
riving on EWU’s campus, the current Swoop has gained an understanding of what kind of suit best fits his skills.
“I hate working in mascot suits that restrict movement because you can’t be entertaining if you can’t move,” said Swoop. “You practice what you can do and then you learn the limitations of what the suit can do.”
Swoop said he has pushed to modify the beaks on the helmets so the vision is better. He has made small adjust-ments on the body that allow for greater move-ment and air flow. This keeps the suit from get-ting too hot, causing a lot of sweating.
“It’s lighter before the game then after the game,
which is actually kind of disgusting to think about,” Swoop said.
Swoop said he would like to have a bigger pres-ence on campus. He could assist in campus events where an active person would be beneficial. Infor-mation to request Swoop can be found at goeags.com.
So, who is underneath the mask? Well, he might be sitting next to you in class or eating at the table across from you in the PUB.
“It’s kind of fun, actu-ally,” Swoop said. “You get to walk around cam-pus [and] if it was a re-ally good football game or something, you hear peo-ple talking about it. You just kind of sit there and grin.”
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Nov. 11:20 a.m.Malicious mischief
A female student re-ported that the back win-dow of her car had been broken out.
The incident happened during a dispute with an-other student at a party located around Sixth and K streets. Officers were able to identify a suspect, who agreed to pay for the window. The incident has been forwarded to OSRR.
Malicious mischiefThe arm of the vehicle
gate near the crime lab was broken off. The bro-ken piece was left in the bushes. There are no sus-pects at this time.
Nov. 211:00 a.m.Fire call
An officer was dis-patched to Morrison Hall after a smoke alarm was activated. A steam pipe broke, releasing a large amount of vapor into an area as well as knocking down an employee. There were no injuries, but some interior damage was done to the building.
11:00 a.m.Collision
An employee, stopped for a pedestrian, was rear ended near the Music Building. The damage was minor.
7:50 p.m.Assault
Police are investigating an assault that occurred
in the area between the URC and Louise Ander-son Hall.
The suspect grabbed a female student and tried to take her to a secluded area.
The suspect is de-scribed as a black male in his early to mid-20s, approximately 6 feet 2 inches tall, with a medium build and a goatee.
He was wearing dark colored clothing, possibly sweatpants and a hooded sweatshirt.
Anyone with informa-tion regarding the inci-dent is asked to call the EWU Police Department at 509-359-6310 or EWU Police Tip Line at 509-359-4286.
Nov. 4Rape
A rape was reported in Brewster Hall. The inci-dent occurred on Oct. 28.
Both the victim and the suspect are students. The suspect has been ar-rested and booked into the county jail.
9:45 a.m.Theft
A cell phone was sto-len from Kingston Hall. There are no suspects at this time.
Nov. 6Traffic stop
An officer pulled over a vehicle that was missing both tail lights.
The driver had a war-rant out for his arrest for making false statements to police and malicious mischief.
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Photos courtesy EWU Police DepartmentThe EWU police are seeking the person pictured above. he is a person of interest with regarding an Oct. 24 theft that took place at 11:20 a.m. at the URC. If you can identify the individual, please contact Officer Mahan at 509-359-6507 or the Cheney Police Department at 535-9233.
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The Eastern airsoft club uses BBs in simulated military combat. They have used a variety of themes including World War II, Vietnam, ‘halo’ and a zombie scenario.Photo by Josh Friesen
Exciting themes make airsoft club a blast
By Josh Friesencontributing writer
Military combat, minus casualities
Dane Fiedler crouches behind a wall and catches his breath. He can hear shouting all around him, some in English, but most in German. The German’s camp had attacked his camp as they were sleeping.
Fiedler peers around a wall and spots three German infantryman making their way towards him. Fiedler grasps his airsoft gun, turns the corner, and unloads a volley of BBs.
Fiedler became a mem-ber three years ago when Pe-ter Harral first established the club.
Fiedler has been the president of EWU’s airsoft club for a little over a year.
The club travels to Spo-kane once a month to play with Spokane Airsoft, a group dedicated to allowing all fans of the sport to play.
The airsoft club attracts people from all over eastern
Washington, northern Idaho and Oregon.
What sets EWU’s airsoft club apart is the fact that many of their airsoft games are themed.
“They do anything from reenactments of World War II, Vietnam and Desert Storm to made-up themes,” Fiedler said. “I know last month there was a zombie-themed game.”
According to Fiedler, Spokane Airsoft does a lot to try and immerse the player into any given theme as much as possible. This includes vehicles mounted with airsoft guns.
During a three-day long World War II reenactment, there were two separate camps and players had to be on full alert the whole time.
“It was just really cool to see everyone dressed up like it was 1942. They had the old school jeeps and stuff. The people on the German side actually spoke German, too,” said Fiedler. “They got really into it.”
One of vice president Gus Froese’s responsibilities is to come up with new and exciting themes to give their
battles a little extra shot of adrenaline.
“[I want to do] some-thing other than, ‘Here’s a bunch of soldiers versus another bunch of soldiers.’ Maybe we could do science fiction stuff. Just whatever the club members want to do,” Froese said.
According to Froese, he really wanted to stray away from the typical death match or capture the flag style. The club is currently hashing out a “Rambo” game type where one person would battle a whole group.
“We have to figure out some kinks to it,” Froese said, laughing. “We have to figure out a way to get every-body on board with the same plan. Because if the whole group knows where [the one person] is at, then it’s not re-ally fair.”
Many people believe that airsoft is the same thing as paintball, but with differ-ent guns. Fiedler and Froese contend that this is not true.
“Paintball is more fast paced, more competition level whereas airsoft is more realism,” Fiedler said.
“With paintball, it’s not
like simulated combat as much. ... With airsoft, you can dress up in whatever camo you want,” Froese said. “If you want to be a soldier on [a] Normandy beach, you can get a Thompson M1A1.”
Danaye Smith, whose been a member of the club for two years, agrees.
“It pretty much gives a really different feel than paintball. Paintball doesn’t have stuff like that,” Smith said.
While the first priority of the club is to have fun, they also take things seriously. Smith runs practice every Saturday afternoon in Medi-cal Lake.
“The practice I run helps the team prepare for com-petitive game play,” Smith said. “We focus on tactics, teamwork and strategy.”
The airsoft guns the club uses are not the same as those found at Walmart or Cabela’s. The club’s guns pack quite a punch. While most are spring operated, the guns the club uses are automatic electric guns, which are a much higher quality.
“They fire a faster feet
per second and they also can fire more per second,” said Fiedler. “They’re fairly ac-curate. An upgraded one can be accurate up to forty-five yards.
According to Fiedler, with a bigger gun comes a bigger cost, up to $200, as well as a higher risk of get-ting injured. However, the club insists that everyone has the proper equipment. Shatter-proof goggles are required and some members go as far as wearing mouth protection.
“Teeth are something that do get hit every once in a while, and [the BBs] will shatter your tooth,” Fiedler said.
While he would love to see his club grow, Fiedler believes that many people do not think of airsoft as a legitimate sport.
“There’s a misconception of what airsoft is, that it’s a bunch of immature kids in a backyard. That’s not what we are,” Fiedler said. “We do take some things seri-ously, but then we do take some things casual. ... Come out and check us out and see what it’s all about.”
Gabriel Jackson came to East-ern five years ago and after starting two games his freshman year, he has been an anchor on the Eagles offensive line. His veteran leader-ship on and off the field has kept the injury-riddled line from falling apart this season.
Born and raised in Tacoma, Wash., Jackson was originally re-cruited by the Air Force Academy Preparatory School. His career didn’t last due to a medical dis-charge.
“I got to Tacoma and I was try-ing to find another school to play football at,” said Jackson. “I ended up calling the football staff here at Eastern, told them my story and they had me come out and work with their scout team.”
When he isn’t bringing down opposing pass rushers, Jackson is working on his criminal justice major and studying psychology. “As far as classes go, I really en-joyed my psychology classes and that’s why I started my psychology degree,” said Jackson. “But I have a lot more classes to finish with that.”
Last year’s football season was definitely the highlight of his career, but this year’s season is unique in a whole different sense. All but one starter on the offensive line was injured this year.
“I am the last guy,” said Jack-
son. “Our starting right tackle got hurt before the season even start-ed. Our starting right guard went down first game of the year. So it’s been kind of crazy.”
The players stepping in, mostly young guys, all did a good job, ac-cording to Jackson.
“Coach [Aaron] Best, offensive line coach, is one of the smartest football coaches I ever met in my life,” Jackson said. “He coaches ev-eryone the same as if you’re start-ing, so when you do get to go play, you are ready to step in.”
“We rely heavily on senior lead-ership,” said Best. “And [Jackson] being available in all games has helped the less experienced play-ers to learn and create chemistry.”
Patrick Mealey had to switch positions from tight end to center midway through the season.
“The size was definitely an is-sue at first. I was small compared to the guys I was playing against,” said Mealey . “Switching positions and starting on such short notice was a challenge, but I had a lot of great guys helping me out.”
Some people may view this sea-son as a disappointment, but Jack-son would disagree.
“Even though it was my last home game and we don’t have a shot at the playoffs anymore, I be-lieve that you don’t come here just for yourself. You come to build for the seasons after and I hope I can build on that and that this program keeps improving years from now,” Jackson said.
“My new love is snowboard-ing,” said Jackson. “I picked it up a couple of years ago and I can’t wait for the season to start.”
“I was at the Rail Jam last year,” he said, “but I’m too scared to hit the rails yet.”
With football season under-way, the risk of potential injury involved with snowboarding puts Jackson in a controversial situa-tion.
The future is unclear for
Jackson. If he doesn’t make foot-ball into a professional career, he hasn’t decided on what to do. One thing is for sure: it’s going to be a new chapter in his life.
“I’m going to go to my pro-day and hopefully put up good num-bers and see where that takes me,” Jackson said.
Last lineman standingCo-captain one of remaining starters
By Fedor Gaponenkostaff writer
Photo by Evan Sykesgabriel Jackson has been part of the offensive line since his freshman year.
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EWU sports in Brief
Eagles defeat Knights — Eastern women’s basketball won their exhibi-tion game against the Warner Pacific Knights, 91-67. Se-nior captain Brianne Ryan led scoring with 28 points. Be-hind Ryan, sopho-more Chenise Pakoo-tas scored 14 points while senior Chene Cooper scored eight. Three freshmen also had their moments in the game, as Melissa Williams had 10 rebounds and six points. Kylie Huerta had seven points and Kayleigh Ryan was 4-of-4 on free throws.
Women’s hockey sweeps Seattle — The women’s hockey team defeated the Seattle Women’s Hockey team in a two-game series. In the first game, the Eagles won 5-4 in overtime with Alexandra Gellhaus scoring three of the five goals, and Becky Fullerton and Katie Higgins scoring the remaining two. On Nov. 6, the Eagles won 7-3 with Vanes-sa Vargas and Cloie Cornell having two goals a piece.
Jarrett and Walk-er score scholar awards — Kicker Mike Jarrett and goalkeeper Jamie Walker were named November’s Scholar Athletes. Jarrett, a communications major, recently broke the record for extra points and extra points attempted in the Homecoming game against North-ern Colorado. Walker made 80 saves during her junior year and was ranked second in the Big Sky Conference for saves per game and saves percentage. She also earned two defensive Big Sky Player of the Week awards.
Volleyball chops Lumberjacks, gets mauled by Bears — Eastern volleyball avenged their loss against Northern Arizona, 3-2, on Nov. 3. However, the Eagles’ five-game winning streak was snapped after a shut out by Northern Col-orado, 3-0, in a game on Nov. 5. Junior Shelby Puckett, who had 35 kills between both games, went out with an ankle injury in the third set of the Northern Colo-rado game. Despite the loss to the Bears, the Eagles are still ranked third in the Big Sky Conference.
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keisa Monterola will be looking to break the Eagles’ indoor and outdoor pole vaulting records. her mark of 14-1 1/4 at pan American games was higher than both Eastern records.
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Venezuelan pole vaulter chases Olympic dreamMonterola places fifth at Pan American Games
Pole vaulter Keisa Monterola charges and plants the pole in the box, launching herself in the air. She throws her body over the bar before descending down to the pad as the crowd roars throughout the arena.
Monterola, a trans-fer student from Clacka-mas Community College (CCC), placed fifth at the 2011 Pan American Games with a mark of 14 feet, 1 ¼ inches in Guadalajara, Mexico, Oct. 24. She will be looking to break East-ern’s pole vaulting record and qualify for the 2012 Olympics.
Monterola represented EWU and her home coun-try of Venezuela in the games.
While her 14-1 ¼ mark is less than a foot bet-ter than the Eastern pole vaulting record of 13-2 ¼, it does not count because she was not competing in an NCAA sanctioned event, according to East-ern’s athletic website.
From her approach to her takeoff, Monterola visualizes her jump until she leaves the ground.
“Right in that moment, everything goes so fast,” Monterola said. "I don’t think about anything ex-cept for being aggressive
[because] that is what it will take me to finish my jump.”
To prepare for the Oc-tober competition, East-ern jump coach Eric Al-lison helped Monterola focus on extra techniques and base work.
“It was a lot sooner than we would normally get someone ready, so it was a little bit rushed,” Allison said.
The preparation for the games was difficult for Monterola as she had just finished the process of moving from Clackamas, Ore. to Cheney and get-ting ready for school.
“I was worried because this was a big competi-tion,” Monterola said. “I needed to be ready, I wanted to be ready. Eric got me ready in three weeks, which was impres-sive.”
Although she did not achieve her goal of win-ning a medal, Monterola was proud to represent her native country and the university.
“I was competing against world champi-
ons,” said Monterola. “It’s a whole new level, so com-petitive. I got close to the podium.”
With the Venezue-lan team having already picked their coaches, Al-lison was unable to go to Guadalajara, Mexico.
“I thought she was go-ing to jump around 13-6,” Allison said. “I was pleased, especially after only three weeks of train-ing. She’s not in vault shape yet. I think it speaks highly of how far she’ll go this year.”
Monterola’s parents got her into sports when she was four years old.
She has been pole vaulting since she was 12 years old with Russian coach Alexander Rad-chich.
“Vaulting wasn’t very common for girls,” Mon-terola said. “I got the na-tional record and made the national team. Nowa-days, there’s a lot of girl vaulters trying to do what I did.”
Monterola’s pole vault-ing ability progressed over the years.
In 2005, she won a sil-ver medal in the Interna-tional Association of Ath-letics Federation (IAAF) World Youth Champi-onships and the South American Junior Champi-onships, clearing the 13-11 mark in both competi-tions.
Although she had suc-cessful training in her own country, Monterola’s transition from Venezuela to the U.S. was difficult. After spending a year in Seattle, Monterola trans-ferred to CCC where she pole vaulted and was a jumper for the track team.
“It was a really hard transition because I didn’t have a coach for a year in Caracas,” Monterola said. “It was a whole [new] pro-cess, like starting from zero.”
Head track and field coach Keoni McHone re-members Monterola’s determination, as well as the struggles she endured when she first came to CCC, such as the running and sprint exercises.
“She wasn’t used to the conditioning,” McHone said. "On top of that, [she was] not getting the nutri-tion she needed.”
Despite initial prob-lems, Monterola was able to adapt.
She placed first at the 2009 Northwest Athletic Association of Communi-ty Colleges (NWAAACC) track championships in the long jumps and pole vaulting.
In 2010, she would
place first in pole vaulting while achieving a person-al best of 14-2 ½.
Monterola would also win a gold medal in the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games with a record setting mark of 13-9 ¼ on July 25.
Although she had reached a new level of success, McHome recalls Monterola always having a smile on her face when-ever she was competing on the CCC track.
“She enjoyed the time she had with all of the other athletes,” McHone said. “She still liked to have fun, make friends and do the other things a collegiate athlete likes to do.”
With the Pan American Games over, Monterola will be adjusting to the Eastern practice schedule to prepare for the upcom-ing season.
“We can still do quite a bit for her strength-wise and speed-wise,” Allison said. “There’s some tech-nical flaws in her jump that we can clean up.”
Monterola is focused on training for the up-coming indoor and out-door track seasons.
She knows she has a long way to go if she wants to qualify for the Olympics and break the school record.
“I know I can qualify for the Olympics,” said Monterola. “If I can jump 14-1 in three weeks, I can jump higher than that with training longer.”
Passion lies inside freshman outside hitter Kelsey Julian as she replaces graduated players from EWU, starting 22 of 23 matches in the 2011 volleyball season.
Julian is a three-sport ath-lete from Kenne-wick, Wash. and walked on for the 2011 season. The choice was between volley-ball, basketball and track.
“Volleyball was the sport I loved,” Julian said. “There is a high intensity, volume and feel-ing of getting that block.”
Julian averages 1.01 kills
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per set and 0.60 blocks. Twice, she had a career-high seven kills against University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) on Sept. 10 and Montana on Oct. 28.
Julian had potential from the start, according to Head Coach Miles Kydd.
Julian attended the Eagles’ volleyball summer camp where Kydd and staff observed the po-tential that was inside Julian, as cited on goeags.com.
“She is not an intimidated player; she took the bull by the horns and went for it,” Kydd said.
Julian is the most energetic
and ecstatic player on the court, according to middle blocker Amanda Brown.
“She is always pumping up the team,” middle blocker Talia Fermantez said. “You can just feel the fire coming out of her.”
Julian energizes the team whether there is a win or loss, according to Fermantez.
“She isn’t a player you are going to see back down,” Kydd said.
Julian manages to balance 18 credits and volleyball.
“The busier you are, the more you get done,” said Kydd. “The girls are good students and do a great job of balancing their time.”
Julian misses lectures be-cause of traveling and spends spare time off the court com-pleting homework to stay caught up with classes.
“It’s not too terrible,” said Julian. “I just learn to balance it.”
Julian received offers from different schools and decided on Eastern.
Julian has family that lives in Spokane and gets to play with girls she loves.
“I have never met girls that get along and play so well to-gether,” Julian said.
EWU had a good recruiting class, as stated by Kydd. The team had a lot of starters gradu-ate, which left opportunity for freshmen to fill in the vacant spots.
Recruiting had holes for middles, so Brown and Fer-mantez were able to step in and start, according to Kydd.
According to Julian, it is not an accident she came to Spo-kane.
“I believe everything hap-pens for a reason,” Julian said. “Anything that has happened in my life has brought me to this point and I feel so blessed to have this opportunity.”
Monterola’s pole vaulting accolades
• Venezuelan indoor national record holder • Venezuelan outdoor national record holder• 2005 IAAF World Youth Championships: Silver • 2005 South American Junior Championships: Silver • 2009 NWAACC Track and Field Championships: First • 2010 NWAACC Track and Field Championships: First • 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games: Gold • 2011 Pan American Games: Fifth
Julian’s stats Digs 42 D/Set .45Blocks 60 B/Set .64Kills 91 K/Set .97Points 122 P/Set 1.30
Walk-on freshman makes most of opportunityOutside hitter’s desire to play for Eastern turns into reality
By Sierra Schmidtcontributing writer
gabriel Jackson has been part of the offensive line since his freshman year.
